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SUMMARY:The Challenge of Driving Prosperity: Growth Diagnostics and Sustainable Development
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Miguel Angel Santos\, Senior Research Fellow\, CID (Jordan\, Panama\, Venezuela\, sub-national Mexico)Douglas Barrios\, Research Fellow\, CID (Venezuela\, sub-national Mexico)Tim O’Brien\, Research Fellow\, CID (Sri Lanka\, Albania\, Jordan) 	About the talk: This panel discussion will focus on how to overcome the implementation challenges that arise when doing growth diagnostics\, make high bandwidth development policies politically viable\, and combine economic growth with social and environmental sustainability. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A with the speakers.  	About the speakers: Miguel Angel Santos is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. At CID\, he has been involved in various research projects aimed at helping governments to rethink their development strategies\, both at the national and sub-national levels. Since he joined CID in August 2014\, he has been involved in projects at the national level in Mexico\, Panama\, and Venezuela\, and at the sub-national level in Mexico in the states of Chiapas\, Baja California\, Tabasco and Campeche; and the city of Hermosillo at Sonora state. He has also performed as project manager in the projects leading to the build-up of the Mexican Atlas of Economic Complexity\, and the Peruvian Atlas of Economic Complexity. Before joining the field of international development\, Miguel worked for ten years in corporate finance and business development in Latin America\, performing as Director of Finance for the Cisneros Group of Companies (1997-2003)\, Head of Corporate Finance for Mercantil Servicios Financieros (2005-2007)\, and Business Vice-President for Sony Pictures and Entertainment Latin America (2008-2009). At that point\, he decided to switch tracks and get involved in development economics. He holds two Master of Science degrees in International Finance and Trade (2011) and Economics (2012) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (2014)\, and a Ph.D. in Economics at Universidad de Barcelona (2016). He was the head of the Macroeconomic Policy Team for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski in the Venezuelan elections of 2012. 	Douglas Barrios joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2013. Before joining CID he worked in McKinsey’s Bogotá office as a Public Sector Specialist where he served public and social sector organizations throughout Latin America in a broad set of topics ranging from ICT promotion strategies to education policy design. Other previous experience include serving as an external policy adviser for local governments as well as political campaigns in Venezuela. His research interests are focused on urban dynamics\, natural resource extraction and rent management\, behavioral economics and the political economics behind policy design. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad Metropolitana (Venezuela) and a Masters in Public Administration and International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA-ID 2012). 	Tim O’Brien joined CID in 2015 and has worked on both Growth Lab and Building State Capability projects. He has led growth diagnostic research in Albania and Sri Lanka. Tim holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University. Tim served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 2008-2010 and has experience working with the World Bank and in environmental engineering. Tim’s research interests center on the challenges of economic transformation and adapting to climate change in developing countries and vulnerable communities. 	Sponsored by International Development Professional Interest Council\, a Harvard Kennedy School student organization. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-challenge-of-driving-prosperity-growth-diagnostics-and-sustainable-development/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R429) – Rubenstein 4th Floor
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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SUMMARY:CID Growth Lab Seminar: Why Can't *Sri Lanka* Be First (In Software)?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sanjiva Weerawarana\, Founder\, Chairman and Chief Architect of WSO2 \nAbout the talk: This talk is Sanjiva Weerawarana’s story of returning to Sri Lanka in 2001\, starting an open source foundation\, starting a business\, joining the army and building software of all kinds. Sanjiva lived in the US for 16 years before that (his entire adult life) and has now been back for nearly 17 years. This talk will discuss his experiences and why he thinks Sri Lanka can easily become a leading technology creating country. He will also discuss how diaspora who genuinely want to\, can practically play a role in improving Sri Lanka.  	About the speaker: Sanjiva Weerawarana is Founder\, Chairman and Chief Architect of WSO2\, where he leads the design\, architecture and development of Ballerina. After starting WSO2 in 2005\, Sanjiva lead the creation of a complete set of middleware products before deciding to throw them all away and start again with a programming language approach. Prior to starting WSO2\, he was at IBM Research where he led the development of Web services standards and technologies. He’s a long time open source developer and advocate and is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation\, an Emeritus Board Member of the Open Source Initiative and Founder and Chief Scientist of the Lanka Software Foundation. He also volunteers in the Sri Lanka Army where he serves as the IT advisor. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1994.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-growth-lab-seminar-why-cant-sri-lanka-be-first-in-software/
LOCATION:WEX 102 – Wexner Building\, 1st Floor
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